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Harvesting was carried out with old agricultural tools specific to the region at the “Harman Festival” held in Bayburt.

The culture, social life and beauties of the city were presented to visitors at the event organized by the Kenan Yavuz Ethnography Museum in Beşpınar village of Demirözü district of Bayburt. Harvesting was carried out with traditional methods accompanied by folk songs using agricultural tools from approximately 100 years ago at the festival held in the wheat field near the museum.

Kenan Yavuz, the founder of the museum, said that they strive to introduce the beauties of Anatolia to both the country and the world. Stating that they want to convey to future generations by keeping emotions such as sharing, working together, having fun, helping each other and helping the fallen on the agenda, Yavuz said, “We are organizing a harvest festival held under conditions of 50 to 100 years ago in order to ensure that new generations learn. This is the most unique example of the structure we call culture and experience tourism today. I think such an event is not held in Turkey or the world in this form.”

Yavuz emphasized that they have brought a new perspective to the concept of museums in this sense, and said, “In other words, we provide visitors with the opportunity to experience and we experience this beauty together. We are trying to spread and recognize cultural tourism, introduce our folk songs, melodies and affection to the world.”

Harvesting was done with old agricultural tools at the “Harman Festival” in Bayburt – 1
Aysel Toplu, who came to Bayburt with a team of 30 people from Trabzon for the festival, also stated that the beauty, brotherhood, life and abundance of Anatolia were told in the museum.

Toplu, who stated that they both had a good time and experienced old experiences in the museum, noted the following:

“Hopefully, such museums will spread all over Anatolia in a way that will remind us that we are a production society. I think that young people will understand what production is, and that they will learn how beautiful and livable Anatolia is and that they should not leave their villages in this way.”

Naim Yavuz, who said that the museum took him back to his childhood and memories, said, “We were refreshed with great memories in a festival. I would like to thank Kenan Bey for this. A window opening to the world in such a mountain village at an altitude of 1700 meters has made this place a village that is talked about all over the world. People come here and live their past with great enthusiasm.”